US judge orders Sudan to pay almost $8M for USS Cole bombing
US District Judge Robert G. Doumar of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ordered the government of Sudan Wednesday to pay $7.96 million in compensation to the families of 17 US Navy personnel...
Guantanamo detainee says torture prompted confession to USS Cole bombing
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , the suspected mastermind of the 2000 USS Cole bombing and a Guantanamo Bay detainee, said his confession to the...
Guantanamo detainee says he helped bomb USS Cole, Kenya US embassy
The US Department of Defense reported Monday that Guantanamo detainee Walid Muhammad Salih bin Attash admitted to collaborating on the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Kenya and the 2000 bombing of the USS...
A federal judge on Wednesday held Sudan liable in the 2000 al-Qaeda bombing of the USS Cole , and moved the civil trial of a suit brought by families of seventeen...
Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of a civil suit brought against Sudan by families of US military personnel killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inquiry report;...
US District Judge Robert G. Doumar of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Tuesday denied a motion to dismiss filed by the government of Sudan in a lawsuit brought by families of sailors...
Federal judge allowing USS Cole lawsuit against Sudan to go to trial
US District Judge Robert G. Doumar has said that he will not grant the Sudanese government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of sailors killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD...
President George W. Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 Tuesday. The US Congress approved the bill late last month after leaders of the House of Representatives decided to forego the...
President Bush's recent acknowledgement of secret CIA prisons for important terror detainees was motivated by the personal urgings of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to release all British prisoners, and from pleas to close the sites from...
Bush confirms existence of secret CIA prisons for high-value terror detainees
US President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated secret prisons outside the US where high-value terror suspects were detained, and said that 14 of those suspects...
